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Video impression Beethoven World Premiere Fantasia Sonata

 

Impressive World Premiere of Beethoven's Fantasia Sonata in D for piano by Martin Oei (reconstruction Cees Nieuwenhuizen)

Background information and docs on the Fantasia Sonata

Press Release - Communiqué de Presse - Pressemitteilung - Persbericht

Oct 21, 2012. Martin Oei gave a great world premiere concert in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in a sold out concert hall. The reconstruction of the Beethoven Fantasia Sonata was very well received by the audience. 

 

Cees Nieuwenhuizen opens the concert

Martin Oei concentrating at the beginning of the concert

Cees Nieuwenhuizen explained the history of the Fantasia Sonata in D. Nieuwenhuizen showed the original Beethoven sketches from the Kafka Sketbooks and explained how he reconstructed the work. Nieuwenhuizen: "Of course I had to compose-in, as I call it, some missing things, but this piece is almost entirely Beethoven"

Picture: Martin Oei, Daniel Wayenberg and Cees Nieuwenhuizen

At the end of the concert famous pianist Daniel Wayenberg (born 1929 in Paris) who attended the concert gave an encore (Rachmaninov quatre mains) with 'his young friend' Martin Oei. Wayenberg received the first copy of the reconstruction in a beautiful hard cover edition. Wayenberg: "The Beethoven Fantasia Sonata in D from 1792 was well reconstructed by Cees Nieuwenhuizen. It is a great work that deserves to be promoted and performed on stage."

 

Interview with Cees Nieuwenhuizen on Fantasia Sonata (in Dutch)

 

TV Interview with Martin Oei on Beethoven Fantasia Sonata in D Deest 45 (1791/92); rec. Cees Nieuwenhuizen

See also: World Premiere Fantasia Sonata Deest45, 21 October 2012, Concertgebouw

Source: www.martinoei.nl

If you want to sponsor Martin to record the CD recording of the world premiere, please look at:

http://www.voordekunst.nl/vdk/project/view/254-wereldpremi-re-beethoven-nieuwenhuizen-fantasie

 

World premiere of Beethoven Fantasia Sonata for piano in D in Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 21 October 2012, reconstruction Cees Nieuwenhuizen

The Fantasia Sonata in D (deest 45) in three parts, was hidden in the archives since 1792. This sonata of the young Beethoven, with striking similarities to the Moonlight sonata and the Pastorale has never been performed on stage. Young pianotalent Martin Oei (16) will play it for the first time in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, October 21st, 2012. Buy tickets/koop toegangskaarten.

The piece was probably written in Bonn. In November 1792 Beethoven went from Bonn to Vienna to study with the famous composer Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). Beethoven rapidly proceeded to make his mark as a brilliant keyboard performer and as a gifted young composer with a number of works to his credit. In 1795 his first mature published works appeared, and his career was officially launched.

The large, over 1100 bars comprising torso now known as Fantasia Sonata in D from 1792, cannot be called a sketch anymore, although Beethoven has not completed the work and used many ideas in other, later works. The reconstruction of the sketches was done by the Dutch Beethoven Musicologist and composer Cees Nieuwenhuizen. 

Zefir Records issued a CD recording of this work.

Professional background information / Professionele achtergrondinformatie (NL/ENG)

Movie below: Interview with Cees Nieuwenhuizen and Martin Oei to raise funds for the CD via: Voor de kunst.

  

How it sounds? Think of  the Pastorale Sonata No 15  in D Op. 28. This fantasy is definitely Beethoven's early Pastorale...

Martin Oei

 

2011, July 24. Beethoven's La Marmotte by an unknown artist in Antwerp

 

2011, September 30. Beethoven composition heard for first time in 200 years

A movement from a Beethoven composition for a string quartet discarded by the composer and replaced by a new version has been reconstructed by Barry Cooper, a musical expert at Manchester University. The 'lost' part of the String Quartet in G, Opus 18 Number 2 was reconstructed using surviving detailed sketches for every one of its 74 bars

 

Source:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/sep/30/beethoven-composition-200-years-video

See also: http://www.gyrix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=53436

2011, February 10th. Beethoven Project Trio Concert Announcement, CD issue of Piano trio nr. 15 in Es, Opus 63, Hess 47 (reconstruction)

George Lepauw, the pianist of the Beethoven Project Trio (with Sang Mee Lee, violin and Wendy Warner, cello) announces the first concert of the group's first complete Beethoven Piano Trio cycle, in five concerts beginning Wednesday February 10th, 2010 at the PianoForte Salon in the historic Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Visit www.BeethovenProjectTrio.com or Wiki for more info.

 

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2010, February 16. World premiere of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in F, reconstructed by Cees Nieuwenhuizen

The world premiere of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in F, reconstructed by Cees Nieuwenhuizen, took place during the Beethoven Festival in the Oosterpoort in Groningen (the Netherlands) on February 16 and in Leeuwarden on February 17. Pianist was Anastasia Goldberg. The concerto is based on the first movement of the 8th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, Opus 93.

     

PROGRAM

20.15 uur | De Oosterpoort, grote zaal
Het Noord Nederlands Orkest 
Zevende Symfonie | De Romantische Beethoven
Beethoven/Nieuwenhuizen: Pianoconcert in F (Ned. première)
Beethoven: Pianoconcert nr. 3
Beethoven: Symfonie nr. 7
Dirigent: Stefan Vladar
Piano: Stefan Vladar (Pianoconcert nr. 3)
Piano: Antastasia Goldberg (Pianoconcert in F)

Pianist Anastasia Goldberg

Wie het door Beethoven onvoltooide Pianoconcert in F beluistert, zal daar veel van de Achtstesymfonie in terughoren. Wat was Beethovens bedoeling ermee? In zijn romantische, virtuoze Derde pianoconcertweet Beethoven alles uit het instrument te halen wat er in zit en het liefst nog meer. Hoe klinkteen symfonie die is geschreven terwijl Napoleontische oorlogen grote ellende aanrichten en decomponist al redelijk doof en ook nog eens hopeloos verliefd is? Dan klinkt die als dezedansende, uiterst energieke Zevende.

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